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assert their "rights." Although some CPUSA officials disapproved of the homosexual life-style, the Hay approach was seen as a means by which American society could be subverted and undermined.
Some have claimed that Hay was "expelled" from the CPUSA, but the film explains that Hay realized he needed to leave the Communist Party so that he could do his work organizing the Mattachine Society, the first official "gay rights" group, on a more effective basis. This is explained through interviews with Hay and Miriam Sherman, a Communist Party organizer who served as Hay's "boss" in the party.
Needless to say, the documented communist origin of the "gay rights" movement in the U.S. is not a subject you will see highlighted by "gay rights" groups or even discussed on the MSNBC cable show hosted by lesbian commentator Rachel Maddow.
The Radical Faeries
A Marxist atheist trained in materialism, Harry Hay tried to find spirituality in his own confused sexual identity, eventually developing the idea that he was a "Radical Faerie" who had male and female traits.
Hay's proposal for a "Spiritual Conference for Radical Faeries" included a poem from the notorious occultist Aleister Crowley. Stuart Timmons, author of The Trouble With Harry Hay, documents Hay's involvement with Crowley, noting that Hay played the organ for the Los Angeles lodge of Crowley's Order of the Eastern Temple, a "notorious anti-Christian spiritual group" where "homosexual sex-magic rituals" took place. A drug addict, Crowley wrote the book, The Diary of a Drug Fiend.
A photo of Hay, known as the "Father of the Faeries," shows him wearing pearls, a blouse, and what appears to be a rainbow dress. Hay himself referred to his fellow "Faeries" as "sissy men." Members of his group gathered in the woods on a regular basis and paid homage to the earth.
Hay's confusion about sexual identity is something that should be pitied and studied. But it has been elevated by the "homosexual community" into another "right" to be guaranteed by government. This has now become known as the GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) "community."
Demonstrating that he was familiar with the career of Harry Hay, Obama Education Department official Kevin Jennings noted in his 1997 speech that "In 1948, he [Hay] tried to get people to join the Mattachine Society." What Jennings did not say, perhaps deliberately so, was that the Mattachine Society was a communist front organization, another effort in the campaign to use and exploit homosexuals to undermine American society.
The "Hope Along the Wind" film notes that a "Marxist education Class" being taught by Hay produced several recruits for the new organization. Hay himself said, "All of them [the founders] thought of themselves as Marxists. We're all thinking in the same direction, feeling in the same direction, looking in the same way and feeling in our bodies: this is the beginning of a brotherhood. And this is the beginning of what we were going to be calling six months later the Mattachine Society."
These Marxists, led by Hay, expanded Hay's original Marxist idea that homosexuals were considered oppressed by the capitalist system and in need of special rights. But Hay's communist connections proved to be too controversial even at this time and he eventually left this organization as well.
Hay supported the 1948 presidential candidacy of Henry Wallace on the communist-dominated Progressive Party Ticket. Later, he acted within the Democratic Party, working as a member of Jesse Jackson's "rainbow coalition" to elect the black activist as president. Today, five states have legalized "gay marriage," the Democratic Party officially supports "gay rights," and President Obama wants to provide them access to the U.S. military. Harry Hay would be "proud."
Hay remained true to the communist cause to the end of his life in 2002. One of his last public roles was as a representative of the "Radical Faerie Political Network" at the 1992 national convention of a Communist Party spin-off group, the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS).
Stuart Timmons, the author of The Trouble With Harry Hay, wrote that it "saddened" Hay after the demise of the old Soviet Union to see people "throwing out the baby with the bath water" in completely denouncing communism. "Marxism needs to be revised, based on new scientific knowledge, particularly of human behavior," Hay said. "The underlying methodology will be proved sound."
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